dsh-workspace-default-model

Give each Workspace in DeepSeek Harness its own colour, default model and reasoning effort. The choices live in a new Workspace models page in the left sidebar: the colour marks the Workspace in the sidebar itself, and the model applies to every new Session started in that Workspace. Sessions that already exist are never changed, and the process-wide default model is never overwritten.

Install

Published on npm as dsh-workspace-default-model.

dsh plugin --profile <name> add dsh-workspace-default-model

Or add the market index in the Web UI (Plugins → More → Custom plugin markets, then Discover → Add index source) and install from the card:

https://iamafshiin.github.io/dsh-workspace-default-model/index.json

What it looks like

• Left sidebar gets a row named Workspace models.
• The page lists every Workspace with a colour chip, a model picker, and a reasoning-effort picker.
• The colour chip opens preset swatches, an OS colour well, and a hex field, so any colour can be picked. A saved colour paints a bar on the Workspace's row in the left sidebar and tints that row here.
• The model picker is searchable: type to filter by model name, id, or provider, move with ↑/↓, confirm with Enter, close with Esc.
• Global default / Model default mean "do nothing special" — that Workspace keeps using the deployment default from @deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-default-model, or the model's own default effort.
• A model that advertises no reasoning levels keeps the effort picker disabled.
• Colour and model are independent: a Workspace can carry a colour with no model override, and clearing the model keeps the colour.

How it works

Two halves, one package:

File	Half	Job
index.js	Host	Keeps the Workspace → model map in $DSH_HOME/workspace-default-model.json, serves two /api/workspace-default-model/... routes to the browser, and writes a model/selection Session event when a new Session starts in a mapped Workspace.
client.js	Browser	Registers the sidebar row (sidebar.panellist) and the main panel (main, keyed by workspace-default-model).
cordis.patch.yml	Bundle	Inserts the Host row.

Applying the choice uses the same durable record the composer's model picker writes, so the composer shows the Workspace default as the Session's current model and the choice survives a reconnect.

Guards: only a Session with no request yet, not seeded, not a fork, not a subagent, and without an explicit model selection is touched.

Install (already done on this machine)

# 1. package lives here
C:\Users\Afshin\.dsh\plugins\dsh-workspace-default-model

# 2. linked into the profile that serves the GUI
C:\Users\Afshin\.dsh\profiles\desktop\node_modules\dsh-workspace-default-model   (junction)

# 3. profile manifest names it as a bundle
C:\Users\Afshin\.dsh\profiles\desktop\package.json
  dependencies -> "dsh-workspace-default-model": "link:../../plugins/dsh-workspace-default-model"
  dsh.profile.bundles -> ... , "dsh-workspace-default-model"

HMR recomposes the profile when that bundles list changes, so no restart is needed; a page reload shows the sidebar row.

Remove

1. Delete "dsh-workspace-default-model" from dsh.profile.bundles in C:\Users\Afshin\.dsh\profiles\desktop\package.json (keep or drop the dependency entry).
2. Optionally delete C:\Users\Afshin\.dsh\workspace-default-model.json.
3. Delete the folder and the node_modules junction.

A backup of the original profile manifest sits beside it as package.json.bak-before-workspace-model.

Notes

• The map is keyed by Workspace id for the UI and matched by Workspace path when a Session starts, so re-adding a Workspace at the same path keeps the choice.
• Saving validates each provider/model against the live catalog, each reasoning effort against what that model advertises, and each colour as a hex value; an unavailable choice is rejected instead of being stored.
• The sidebar bar is the only DOM the plugin touches: it sets one attribute and one CSS variable on the row that already carries data-row-key="workspace:<id>", and a stylesheet draws the bar. React keeps ownership of the row.

Changelog

• 0.3.0 – per-Workspace colour: preset swatches, colour well and hex field in the panel, a colour bar on the sidebar row, and colours that live independently of the model. Storage moved to document version 2 (version 1 files still load).
• 0.2.0 – reasoning effort per Workspace next to the model, and a searchable model picker (filter by name, id, or provider; keyboard navigation). The catalog route now reports each model's levels, saving validates them, and the Session event carries reasoningEffort.
• 0.1.0 – first release: a default model per Workspace.

Publish

DSH has no single built-in store. A "market" is one JSON index file that users add to the Discover tab, so publishing means: ship the npm package, host an index that lists it, and (optionally) list the repo in community catalogs.

1. npm – published as dsh-workspace-default-model. package.json is publish-ready (private removed, engines.dsh, files, license).

   cd C:\Users\Afshin\.dsh\plugins\dsh-workspace-default-model
   npm run check
   npm pack --dry-run      # 6 files, ~12 kB
   npm publish
   

2. GitHub – public repo, so the market card can show Source code and the community catalog can index it.

3. Index – docs/index.json plus docs/icons/ are ready and validated with DSH's own parseMarketIndex. GitHub Pages serves that folder, so the index URL is https://<user>.github.io/dsh-workspace-default-model/index.json.

   Each release: bump version, republish, and add a matching entry under the plugin's versions in index.json (version, publishTimestamp, source, engines.dsh).

4. Users install it – Plugins page → More beside Experimental plugins → enable Custom plugin markets → Discover → Add index source → paste the index URL → Install. Direct install also works: dsh plugin --profile <name> add dsh-workspace-default-model.

5. Community catalog (unofficial, auto-published) – paste the public repo URL at https://deepseekplugin.org/en/submit.